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|'''January 27th, 2024'''

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|The OWOT Discord server has lost Level 3, now down to 13 boosts.

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'''FP''' has changed the @User role's color from gray to a light blue similar to @United Snowy Boys's, and then changed it to the default white after noticing the similarity.<gallery mode="packed" heights="70">

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</gallery>One year and a half after @> ✨ᗩＩ ⟨ 𝓐ndrei𝓧𝓨𝓩 🌌 ⟩ ◭⟁◮ and @realredtext recreate and reupload the yellow emotes from the emoji roster, @> ✨ᗩＩ ⟨ 𝓐ndrei𝓧𝓨𝓩 🌌 ⟩ ◭⟁◮ embarks on a mission to fix up all of the inaccuracies in the current emotes to make them 1:1 accurate to the old, low-resolution emotes from 2018, by extracting the images from their source and upscaling them 8x, fixing up incorrect colors, misplaced pixels, compression artifacts and uneven pixel resolutions.

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|'''January 28th, 2024'''

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|@fern's twice-weekly catpost, amidst the Sabrina exposal.<gallery mode="packed">

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</gallery>Long-time user @gracc🤪✌ is celebrating her birthday today!

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Have you heard of the name "Starianna", especially in the context of Our World of Text? If not, feel free to continue watching this video, and make sure to sit back and relax, as we take a dive beneath the waves and explore what Starianna has to behold and offer to this site.

'''<big>The Mysterious Story of Starianna | OWOT Deep Dive</big>'''

Exactly eight days before this occurrence, an anonymous user ran a counting bot in the front page's chat with the intent of clogging up the chat and just being a general spammer and nuisance. It didn't run for long, as '''FP''' came in and muted the bot within a minute.

Two hours later, the bot came back and went unnoticed for a bit longer before getting muted again by FP. The bot has made numerous appearances afterwards, including a message right before the counting bot started, '''"Starianna"'''.

Two days later, on '''January 22nd''', FP has made a remark on the fact that there might be somebody spamming JS links, activating the counting bot, after muting the fourth bot that day.

The next day, he gave the supposed ''Starianna'' spammer the maximum mute amount, hoping they would stop. After a couple more spam-counting incidents and a couple more mutes, on '''January 24th''', FP has stated that he will work to address this strange counting bot phenomenon, and that he has evidence to suggest these bots aren't run on the browser, and that they're from dozens of residential IPs (not proxies). On the same day, after the numerous mutes given, Starianna temporarily moved the counting bot to '''/name_tree''', which was the WOTD at the time.

On '''January 25th''', FP attempted to contact Starianna about how he can't get rid of her, although there was no response other than more automated counting. Additionally, he has mentioned the fact that Starianna changes her IP address to a non-proxy IP that appears legitimate every time she gets muted.

Several hours later, '''d9eoead''' has complained to FP about how he appears to be "chatting too fast" even though he's not spamming. FP has replied, saying that that only happens if he's actively running a chat bot somewhere, perhaps via a Glitch/repl project, which leads to him possibly tracing these counting bots to a website people here are visiting in droves, explaining the legitimacy of the IP addresses. He also mentioned later that he could use [CSP](<nowiki>https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CSP</nowiki>) to block connections to OWOT from other sites, which would help kill off spammers like Starianna. On '''January 28th''', FP has mentioned that he has observed Starianna changing her phrases every now and then to evade any auto-muting filter.

'''And now, it's time for perhaps the most intriguing and chaotic part yet.'''

On the same day, at 12:09 UTC, OWOT user '''twinnie''' has stumbled upon '''SabrinaCarpenterFan'''<nowiki/>'s YouTube channel, holding an oddly familiar name... '''Starianna'''. The same spammer running the counting bot on the front page for over a week now's name, is ''"coincidentally"'' also Sabrina's channel name. With this newfound information, it was clear that Sabrina's continued presence in this Discord server would not last long at all. @lime.owot proceeds to post it on the Discord server three minutes later.

At first, nobody reacted until Sabrina herself admitted to running the spam bot 45 minutes later. Immediately after this message, the ⁠trash erupted into a chaotic waterfall of messages mocking, making fun of and rightfully harassing Sabrina until FP woke up and checked Discord to review the situation.

Sabrina ended up leaving the server shortly after she admitted to being the infamous Starianna, but after being preventively banned from [our server](<nowiki>https://discord.gg/w8fP2d9qPU</nowiki>), the [WOTD server](<nowiki>https://discord.gg/zvCBYkGfmQ</nowiki>) and the [Goatway Remake server](<nowiki>https://discord.gg/TqpH4UvWPT</nowiki>), she rejoined the OWOT server and threw a fit, repeatedly asking and pinging '''Falling1''', alongside the admins which were online at the time but take no part in moderating the server, such as '''sammich''', '''Mr.Guy''' and '''DayDun''', although there's no reasonable explanation for how they would even help. Seeing as she still doesn't get any help, she then continues to ping every online person in the member list asking for advice.

After one of the pinged members sends Sabrina a death threat, her tantrum worsens and continues to ping every single member.

After some time, she starts sending homophobic and racial slurs, increasing the chances of her getting banned from the server, and then makes an alt account in an attempt to preventively evade the future ban.

'''Nearly four hours after lime.owot exposes Sabrina, or Starianna, it finally happened. @FP has gone online.'''

Minutes after FP has finally checked Discord, @> ✨ᗩＩ ⟨ 𝓐ndrei𝓧𝓨𝓩 🌌 ⟩ ◭⟁◮ quickly rushed to DMs with him to discuss the ongoing situation, providing proof and context necessary to warrant Sabrina's ban. After reviewing the conflict, he finally decides to speak in ⁠trash to Sabrina, expressing his disappointment.

'''At 16:09 UTC, thanks to an immense amount of requests by the community, @FP finally bans SabrinaCarpenterFan, otherwise known as Starianna.'''

The chat erupts once again, celebrating this deed. The OWOT Discord server is now free from Starianna. This calls for an official victory.

Sabrina, however, continues to run the counting, showing no signs of stopping, and FP having limited tools to ban her completely from the site to this day.

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'''Thank you for watching what we consider our biggest video (article) ever, and if you enjoyed it, feel free to drop a like and perhaps join our Discord server for more news to come! It's completely free, and you can always change your mind later!'''

=== === Credits === ===

'''Deep Dive by:''' @> ✨ᗩＩ ⟨ 𝓐ndrei𝓧𝓨𝓩 🌌 ⟩ ◭⟁◮

'''Animations:''' @> ✨ᗩＩ ⟨ 𝓐ndrei𝓧𝓨𝓩 🌌 ⟩ ◭⟁◮

'''Colors:''' @> ✨ᗩＩ ⟨ 𝓐ndrei𝓧𝓨𝓩 🌌 ⟩ ◭⟁◮

'''Lighting:''' @> ✨ᗩＩ ⟨ 𝓐ndrei𝓧𝓨𝓩 🌌 ⟩ ◭⟁◮

'''Supplies:''' @> ✨ᗩＩ ⟨ 𝓐ndrei𝓧𝓨𝓩 🌌 ⟩ ◭⟁◮

'''Directing:''' @> ✨ᗩＩ ⟨ 𝓐ndrei𝓧𝓨𝓩 🌌 ⟩ ◭⟁◮

'''Editing:''' @> ✨ᗩＩ ⟨ 𝓐ndrei𝓧𝓨𝓩 🌌 ⟩ ◭⟁◮

'''Special thanks to:''' @> ✨ᗩＩ ⟨ 𝓐ndrei𝓧𝓨𝓩 🌌 ⟩ ◭⟁◮

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|'''January 29th, 2024'''